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April 19th, 2006 by Cliff Lyon Cliff LyonCliff Lyon

Posting, Moderation and Censorship

A number of comments have been held recently for moderation so let me review basic rules of automated moderation.

Firstly, to prevent spam, the system stops any comment that contains more than 4 hyperlinks. I can adjust that up or down. The default is 2. I figure, any more than 4 is a copy and paste job (C&P), as with James/Tumor’s recent comment I “approved”.

C&P is generally bad form. Nobody is here to be given reading assignments.

The system also traps very foul language. Shit, hell, and damn are allowed as well as clinical terms for body parts.

Spelling variations of pharmaceuticals are trapped as well, so if for instance you misspell ambient your comment might get trapped for moderation. Viagra and erection are trapped as well.

It’s unfortunate that we must be conscientious of the otherwise innocent choice of vocabulary due to the proliferation of “bots” which crawl the web looking for blogs to spam. The other option is to make you type in the squiggly letters. I hate that.

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3 Responses to “Posting, Moderation and Censorship”

  1. sportattashe Says:
    October 23rd, 2006 at 12:21 pm

    This had most of the state of Michigan laughing for 2 days and a

    very embarrassed female news anchor who will, in the future, likely

    think before she speaks.

    What happens when you predict snow but don’t get any….a true

    story…We had a female news anchor who, the day after it was

    supposed to have snowed and didn’t, turned to the weatherman and

    asked: “So Bob, where’s that 8 inches you promised me last night?”

    Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too

    Sting ..have you ever work as a weatherman ???

    they were laughing so hard

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  2. Kaktuska Says:
    January 31st, 2007 at 6:08 am

    We all know those little computer symbols called “emoticons,”
    where:

    -) means a smile and
    -( is a frown.

    Sometimes these are represented by
    -)
    -(

    Well, how about some “ASSICONS?”
    Here goes:

    (_!_) a regular ass.

    (__!__) a fat ass.

    (!) a tight ass.

    (_*_) a sore ass.

    _!_ a swishy ass.

    (_o_) an ass that’s been around.

    (_x_) kiss my ass.

    (_X_) leave my ass alone.

    (_zzz_) a tired ass.

    (_E=mc2_) a smart ass.

    (_$_) Money coming out of his ass

    (_?_) Dumb Ass.

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  3. Test Says:
    February 16th, 2007 at 9:31 pm

    Hello

    Bye

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